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[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe don't refer to femboys when talking about 12 year olds?

[–] stray@pawb.social 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Being a femboy isn't inherently sexual.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well fuck, when you're right you're right.

Just kind of a gut reaction, as that's how the world treats them, but that's not really fair.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Americans when they learn that cross-dressing isn't considered adult only in other places. Sure you have RuPaul's drag race which is very sexualised, but that isn't the only type of cross-dressing that exists.

Also the rules listed are actually sexualising girls. I would rather mock the rules instead. The femboys are not the problem here.

Honestly, I blame the history of the word and its relation to slurs for trans women. Femboy, trap, and multiple others started as words to describe trans women as actually just being a gay man trying to trick straight men into having sex with them by pretending to be a woman.

I'm glad to see that they've evolved beyond that into a very fun way for men to play and express themselves outside of the arbitrary gender binary, but I totally understand the gut reaction of basically "femboy = twink with extra steps."